From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040225 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: system-config-soundcard gives the following error when run: amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': No such device /dev/dsp looks like this: crw------- 1 chris root 14, 3 Feb 23 13:02 /dev/dsp Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-soundcard-1.2.7-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run system-config-soundcard 2. Play test sound Actual Results: See description. Expected Results: Should play test sound. Additional info:
running: modprobe snd-ens1371 enables sound for me but shouldn't this be automatically loaded on boot?
"same here" on FC2test2 (plain CD install - no updates) # lspci [...] 00:12.0 Multimedia Audio Controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 06) The card is detected successfully, but fails to play the test-sound: [root@mag root]# system-config-soundcard sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': No such device amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device -9 After adding the driver manually with "modprobe snd-ens1371" it worked. For a permanent solution I added this to modprobe.conf: # ALSA portion alias char-major-116* snd alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371 # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14* soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 # card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss install snd-card-0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-card-0 && { /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; } remove snd-card-0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove install sound-slot-0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install sound-slot-0 && { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :; } remove sound-slot-0 { /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >>/dev/null 2>&1 || :; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove BTW, the soundcard was not present during FC2test2 install - I added it later...
Please try 1.3.8-1 or later.
Bill, sorry for not getting back to you earlier... Do you mean system-config-soundcard-1.3.8-1 ? I currently have 1.2.8-1 and up2date tells me there is no more recent version... anyway, I just removed my manually added entries from modprobe.conf, rebooted, tried system-config-soundcard and I got: sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': No such device amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device After manually attaching the driver with "modprobe snd-ens1371" it works... Please let me know if you need any further details...
I looked for 1.3.8-1 in the rawhide ftp and the latest version there is 1.2.8-1. Where can we find 1.3.8-1? I just tested 1.2.8-1 under FC2 Test3 and it still doesn't work. However, after manually running "modprobe snd-ens1371" the sound works.
Christopher: I think notting made a typo. 1.2.8-1 is the latest version. notting: It looks like the driver isn't getting loaded prior to system-config-soundcard running. Is this a kudzu problem?
It should be loaded on demand.
I had the same experience with i810. 'modprobe snd-intel8x0' fixes it.
*** Bug 121550 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I have a similar problem: KDE complains about /dev/dsp (no such device), however, after the KDE's sound system is restarted (Control Center -> Audio, turn off, apply, turn on, apply), sound works ok.
Fix in 1.2.9 with this commit: * Wed Jul 21 2004 Bastien Nocera <bnocera> <snip> - use aplay to play sounds on 2.6 kernels
Now, when I start KDE, I get nothing but static. If I try to run system-config-soundcard I get the following error: system-config-soundcard Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/system-config-soundcard.py", line 46, in ? app = soundcard.childWindow() File "/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/soundcard.py", line 87, in __init__ self.device, self.module, self.maker, self.model = self.soundcardBackend.getData(card) File "/usr/share/system-config-soundcard/soundcardBackend.py", line 98, in getData maker, model = string.split(description, "|") ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
Actually, I do get sound after running alsamixer, but there is still a lot of static present.
That crash is fixed in current rawhide. Static is a driver issue.
The static isn't a driver issue because it works fine in GNOME. Only in KDE does the static start up.
Please open a new bug against arts, then.